An Inconvenient Chart: Tom Harris on Sun News Talking Climate Sense

Jim is the the director of communications at The Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland, he was an ink-stained newspaperman for 16 years with many stops in "old media."

Jim covered Congress and The White House during the George W. Bush administration for The Washington Times, and worked as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California. He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, and many local and national talk radio shows to talk politics and policy.

As I noted in this recent blog post, global temperatures stopped rising in 1997. I haven’t seen much reporting of this in the American media — there’s an election coming up after all — but the good folks at Sun News in Canada think it’s a worthy story.

In short, the data from the UK’s Met Office — upon which the UN’s IPCC relies — shows that the experts don’t really know what’s going on with Earth’s climate. We were told that CO2 emissions from humans would causing the global temperature to rise inexorably. In fact, NOAA asserted about two decades ago that if the climate models don’t show warming in 15 years, then there must be something wrong with the models. “Well, it’s been 16 years,” Tom says. Perhaps we’re reordering our economies and lifestyles for nothing?

Tom also notes that the latest data from the Met Office suggest that natural forces — such as solar activity and ocean feedbacks — might be stronger than human inputs of CO2. At the very least, that’s something that should be discussed … and has at Heartland’s seven climate conferences of “skeptics” of catastrophic man-caused global warming.

Time to roll the tape:

As I noted in my previous blog post: How often do the Roosters of the Apocalypse have to be wrong before they start receiving the public mockery they have well earned?

Again, here’s the chart Tom is talking about:

The Heartland Institute has been comprehensively reporting the real, non-alarmist science on the climate for years. You’d do well to: